Miss Washington 2013 spoke out way back in June about Donald Trump’s behavior. Why was she ignored?
“Miss USA Class of 2013: Do y’all remember that one time we had to do our on stage introductions, but this one guy treated us like cattle and made us do it again because we didn’t look him in the eyes? Do you also remember when he then proceeded to have us lined up so he could get a closer look at his property? Oh I forgot to mention that guy will be in the running to become the next President of the United States. I love the idea of having a misogynist as the President. … #HeWillProbablySueMe #iHaveWorseStoriesSoComeAtMeBro #Drumpf”
From a Yahoo News item in June about Searles’ post:
Other contestants sounded off on their experiences with the real estate mogul. Paromita Mitra, Miss Mississippi USA 2013, admitted, “I literally have nightmares about that process,” while Shannon McAnally called Searles’s account “so extremely true and scary.” Anna Horne noted, “Scares me so much.”
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But perhaps the most inflammatory accusation hurled at Trump is one from Searles, in which she insinuates he sexually assaulted her. “He probably doesn’t want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room,” she wrote in the comments section.
This was June 2016, weeks before Trump officially claimed the Republican Party’s prize. So, these accusations aren’t “decades old,” and people aren’t “just now coming forward,” 26 days before the election. Women have been shouting from the rooftops, and nobody in the political press was listening, until the Access Hollywood tape surfaced.
By the way, if you haven’t watched Michelle Obama’s amazing speech from New Hampshire, please do so now. What she said is spot-on: forget the idea of Donald Trump winning; if Donald Trump doesn’t lose this election in an epic landslide, it will send the message that there are no consequences for being a racist, bigoted, sexist pig.
There have to be consequences for being a shitty human being. There have to be consequences for working to elect a shitty human being (Kellyanne Conway, I’m looking at you.) Nobody involved in the Trump campaign should be allowed to fall upwards after this disgraceful campaign. It needs to be that bad. Otherwise, we have normalized despicable behavior. We have empowered it. We’ve said, “Sure, you can defend sexually assaulting women and degrading an entire nation of people as rapists because here’s a lucrative TV contract, we think people want to hear more from you.”
And Mike Pence? Don’t even think about 2020. Anyone who is “proud to stand next to Donald Trump” should be relegated to the dung heap of politics.
Southern Beale 
And now, Lou Dobbs has given all of us a lesson in why women, especially those who have been assaulted by the rich and powerful, don’t speak up more often. I hope nothing happens to her, but she should still sue him for all he’s worth.
As for Mike Pence, I don’t even want his sorry ass to VISIT the Oval Office. He’s a Christian Dominionist, a theocrat with political experience. In other words, just the kind of red meat that those still supporting Trump adore. No. Oh. Hell. No.
I’ve been listening for days to “Why didn’t they speak up sooner if it really happened.” You nailed it with, “And now, Lou Dobbs has given all of us a lesson in why women, especially those who have been assaulted by the rich and powerful, don’t speak up more often.”
The broadcast media have blood on their hands for their role in mainstreaming and coddling Trump and his Nazi/Klan supporters.
There was literally no vetting of this guy. Read this, from 1999!
Well, I think that they might have bend looking for the most odious douchenozzle that they could find—-BINGO!
…butbutbutbutbutHillaBillaKillaryEmailsEmailsBenghaziBenghaziBenGHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZI!!!!11one!
*goes to take bath in acetone to strip the stupid off*
I’m thinking that Reince Priebus was an operative determined to throw the election to the democrats. Nothing else would really add up. Understanding that the republican party had not yet repented of its sin in the unpardonable and sadistic presidency of GWB, Priebus was the leader of a cabal that made it their mission to derail the republican political machine in the vain hopes that the more realistic and moral remnants of their once mighty party might someday regroup to save the GOP.
Never attribute to malice that which teh burnin’ stoopit explains.
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